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Elizabeth: This whole ordeal has reminded me of the importance of civic duty. It's reaffirmed my faith in the process, you know?Henry: I do.Elizabeth: We got this enormous thing done, Henry, and I feel a responsibility to make sure it doesn't get undone. When the time comes...I want to run for president. Henry: I know.

Gordon: I know you're the Dalton whisperer, but now you're getting into --Elizabeth: Excuse me, what?Gordon: Oh, come on, Elizabeth. Everybody knows you play the friend card with him. Elizabeth: Really? I'm just trying to decide if that's more insulting to me or POTUS.

I'm not saying I'm on the list. But let me just tell you what that particular privilege buys you. You get whisked away...without saying good-bye to your friends and family. And then, you get to be in an underground bunker with generals and top government brass for weeks or months eating MREs and drinking ionized water. You emerge after the radiation reduced to livable levels, at which point you get to try to pick out your loved one's bones from the rubble and ash. And then, you spend however many years running the bombed out husk of the former United States government under martial law. That's not a list you want to be on.

Gordon: I'm not going to argue. You're obviously having an emotional reaction.Elizabeth [stunned, takes a deep breath]: Normally, I would have a problem with a man telling me I was emotional at work, but after what happened today, after thinking I was seeing my kids for the very last time, you are damn right I'm emotional. And maybe emotion is what's missing from the stupid, so-called logic behind our dehumanized nuclear posture.